With the help of Blue State Digital, the USA Bid Committee is building a movement to bring the FIFA World Cup™ back to America. Using Blue State Digital's tools and strategy, the Committee is gathering stories, signatures, and pictures that collectively show how much the United States loves the game of soccer.
Blue State Digital's work with the Hope not Hate campaign stopped a BNP breakthrough, built an active constituency base of over 120,000 people, increased fundraising by over 1300% and catalysed thousands of people into taking real world political action across Britain.
We're proud to announce that for the next 12 weeks, Blue State's Boston office will be hosting Alaa, an Iraqi citizen who has worked, studied, and taught in in Baghdad, Cairo, and Dubai over the past decade.
For the past twenty-six years the Sundance Film Festival has brought attention to independent American films - taking low-budget, non-studio movies and providing them an opportunity to receive greater exposure.
Dan Thain came to Blue State Digital in December 2008 from the Labour Party, where he served as the e-Campaigns Manager. Dan worked with some of the most senior figures in the British government, regularly writing emails and direct mail copy for Gordon Brown and Tony Blair while also playing a central role in numerous local and national campaigns. We interviewed Dan as part of our regular feature, Meet BSD.
In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake that has devastated Port-au-Prince, organizations around the world have leaped into action to help Haiti on the ground and over the Internet. The American Red Cross and Partners in Health are asking for donations to increase the level of support they're already providing in Haiti.
Starting in October, the Commission on Smart Global Health asked students and interested citizens around the world to submit their best ideas for improving global health. The response was overwhelming: In just over six weeks, the commission received more than a thousand essays. Earlier this week, the commission announced the winners.
As 2009 comes to a close, holiday and end-of-year fundraising campaigns are in full swing. With snowflakes falling, fires roaring, and cider flowing, there's no better time to help worthy nonprofit organizations start the next decade with a little momentum. This holiday season, please take a moment to spread some cheer to one of these great organizations.
As the temperature drops this winter, organizations are working around the clock to help the most vulnerable members of our communities. This week, the Coalition for the Homeless, the oldest advocacy and direct service organization for the homeless in the country, launched a new website with a helping hand from Blue State Digital.
For the Communications Workers of America (CWA), BSD developed and implemented "Speed Matters", a comprehensive constituency-building media campaign around the issue of telecommunications equity. In a matter of months, BSD's program generated an email list of almost 100,000, and built CWA into a thought leader on this issue, enhancing the organization's credibility with legislators, opinion leaders, and the press. Full Case Study »
“We had a website, but no real organizing tools. I called Blue State Digital and within days, hundreds of screening parties were being created. Our film, The Ground Truth, continues to be screened in homes and community centers across the country. Blue State Digital provides the tools that activists need.”
